• nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Sufficient unionizing and organizing is probably a good bet for a ticket to jail in America, too.

      • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Don't get me wrong, I'm a wob, but the media and security state are so captured by corporate/oligarch interests that I don't think the IWW or any other union org is going to make any real headway in the continental USA.

              • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
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                3 years ago

                Sorry if I wasn't clear, I'm a member of the IWW and I am realistic about what that means in America. I'm saying I don't think unions or vanguard parties will survive in America if they seem at all influential. That isn't stopping me from being a union member but it does mean I'm not expecting a worker's revolution in the imperial core - that's why I'm mostly an anarchist. If the revolution happens it will start in the 'third world' or from AES countries, best we can do in the core is survive and try to hobble the beast.

      • TreadOnMe [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        Having worked with guys with felonies for most of my life (kinda impossible not to in this country honestly), going to prison is in no way withholding your labor, and in fact, makes you more legally exploitable by the state.

        Even if you try to withhold your labor (which, good luck, between the psychological problem of being bored and a social need to stay either the good side of the guards or gangs, either of whom require underpaid labor as a sign of deference) as soon as you are out your labor is in a more precarious position than ever with felons making up the majority of the homeless population.

        Now, you might be young and clever, and can bounce that outside cat :data-outdoor-cat: shit for awhile, but eventually, you might make a mistake, slip up, and then the hammer comes down again to throw you back into that prison system to start over again.

        Sorry for the rant, I don't think you believe this, but I didn't see it being said.

    • RedDawn [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Not half as fast as some of the advice or examples given in this essay like "steal half of the admissions money if you're a ticket taker". My brother did a year in prison for doing something similar at work and it had a major and immediate negative impact on his life.